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Bonobo And The Garden Of Earthly Delights Analysis

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Dear, Dad

Dad you wouldn’t believe this piece of artwork from a book by a primatologist in our first year read in class the other day The Bonobo and the Atheist The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Heironymus Bosch. It may be one of the most overwhelming paintings to ever understand, and you know how I am when I don’t understand something at first how frustrated I get. At a first glance you would say how could I ever understand what one could even think such a painting could mean, from the first panel having god and Adam and Eve together, to the second panel having people run around a beautiful landscape with contrast of pink and blue colors and enjoy the pleasure of the world, on to the third with what you would see as hell and havoc. I had no idea such a painting would get me to start thinking about my life and it has started to get many thoughts flowing through my mind. You …show more content…

He gets his painting background from Jan van Aken his grandfather who was a painter, and was a advisor for the local order called the Illustrious Brotherhood Of Our Lady. An odd name don’t you think for a religious group with there main focus was Worshiping the Virgin Mary. They do not have an exact date for when he was born but it was sometime during the 1450’s in Hertogenbosch a Dutch province of Brabant, which is now Northern Brabant in the Netherlands, the estimated death was August 9, 1516. His paintings are known for his great landscape, with topics of religion and morality. He would be contracted by the church to make religious paintings to be on display on an alter in the church. Now what to you think a painter is going to do when he has the freedom to do? Well he definitely used his freedom having hell depicted in his triptych, you would not see if it were a painting he was hired to do because the church would not condone such a sinful

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